Click through the gallery above for a run down of the top 10 English-born players and top-10 foreign born in the Premier League by net-worth

Manchester-based stars dominate a new list of the highest net-worth players in the Premier League.

United ace Wayne Rooney, 28, is the wealthiest player in the league with an estimated net worth of £45m.

The Reds and England forward is thought to be on a weekly wage of £250,000, with his bank balance boosted further by lucrative endorsement deals. And he could improve his salary with United desperate to keep hold of their star player and his contract up in summer 2015.

Rooney's team-mate Rio Ferdinand is next highest of the English-born Premier League footballers with a net worth of £37m according to a Wealth-X list.

Fellow Reds Michael Carrick (£16m) and Ashley Young (£13m) are numbers eight and nine on the top 10 while City's James Milner (£13m) occupies the final spot.

If the Reds have the lion's share of the English-born players, the Blues come to the fore on the foreign-born players top-10 list.

City midfielder David Silva is in joint eighth place with £19m, along with former Blue Emmanuel Adebayor, now with Tottenham.

The top three on the foreign-born list are Chelsea's Samuel Eto'o (£39m), United's Welsh wizard Ryan Giggs (£27m) and Chelsea's Fernando Torres (£27m).

The combined fortunes of the 10 footballers on the list is £245 million - £10m less than the combined net worth of the individuals on Wealth-X's list of the wealthiest English-born Premier League players.

Michael Byrne, Wealth-X UK Director, said: "The results of this survey may come to a surprise for many, who may have been under the impression that foreign-born EPL players receive more rewarding compensation than their English counterparts. English-born footballers in the EPL amass greater sponsorship and are therefore in a position to accumulate greater overall net worth. This run-down certainly produces more surprises than the English-born list."